Super-Democracy
Once upon a time, Working
Joe conspired with Dr. Diablo to overthrow the reign of the superheroes. They
worked together for different reasons; Dr. Diablo because he was a
supervillain, Working Joe because he was neither hero nor villain, just super.
Working
Joe gave Dr. Diablo cheek swabs, blood samples and stool samples, and was
scanned by sonograms, X-rays and neutrinos. Between Dr. Diablo’s theorizing and
Working Joe’s experience, they figured out the nature of superpower. It turned
out to be a simple matter of electron psychology, replicable by adeledicnandar
technology. With a morphogenetic transmodulator, anybody could achieve, or even
surpass, the powers of the superheroes.
Dr.
Diablo and Working Joe met with Big Boss to ask for a loan, to develop, test,
and mass-produce cheap consumer transmodulators. Big Boss seized upon this
opportunity for super-profit.
The
superheroes and the other supervillains got wind of this, and interrupted their
endless destructive fighting, to oppose such crass commercialism. Only they,
the genetic elite, should wield superpowers, not the common folk.
They joined forces to
destroy the Transmodulator Corporation; but in the end they were defeated by
Big Boss’s super-money, Working Joe’s super-productivity, and Dr. Diablo’s
super-cunning.
Nowadays
everybody in Metroville is super, so nobody is.
Moral: Power to the People!
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